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If something 12 miles wide hit Earth today, it would mean the end of life as we know it. And Randall thinks that's exactly what happened to the dinosaurs 66 million years ago that opened the door for widespread primate evolution.

Prove it



(NASA Goddard Spaceflight Center)


Dark matter is illustrated here as the fog between galaxies.

While it's impossible to wind back the clock, proving the existence of the dark disc would greatly advance Randall's theory.

She's tried to do so by looking at the speed and direction of stars in our galaxy. If stars moved in ways that couldn't be explained by the amount of ordinary, visible matter around them, then it could suggest the presence of the dark disc.

But that's a very tall order. There are about 100 billion stars in the Milky Way, and hunting dark matter is notoriously tricky.

We have a dozen or so functioning detectors underground, on Earth's surface, and in space â€" and none of them has yet managed to sniff out a dark-matter particle. If they do, it would be a significant step toward supporting Randall's hypothesis.

In her concluding remarks, Randall writes:

"In some global sense, we are all descendants of Chicxulub [the town where the dinosaur-killing meteor impacted]. It's a part of our history that we should want to understand. If true, the additional wrinkle presented in this book would mean that not only was dark matter responsible for irrevocably changing our world, but also that some of it played a crucial role in allowing our existence."

A team of astronomers made a rough estimate of this oscillation rate near the turn of this century, calculating that our solar system passes through the plane of the Milky Way about once every 32 million years, which means if there's a dark disc, we pass through that at the same rate.
Interestingly, there's evidence to suggest that mass extinctions in Earth's past happened within this time frame, or about once every 25 to 35 million years.

It's this similarity between the mass-extinction rate and the rate of our solar system's oscillation through the galaxy that made Randall and her Harvard colleague Matthew Reece first suggest the link in scientific paper published in the journal Physical Review Letters last year, and that Randall explores more in her book.

Randall hypothesizes that when we're passing through the dark disc, the gravity from the dark matter within influences the outer region of our solar system, called the Oort cloud.

The Oort cloud, illustrated below just right of center, sits about two light years from the sun and is thought to contain billions of icy objects at least 12 miles wide.

Beware the dark disc

If there is dark matter in Randall's hypothetical disc, then it stands to reason that the disc has a powerful gravitational influence on the objects around it â€" including our solar system.

But our solar system is not always near the disc, which is the crux of Randall's theory.

As the solar system revolves around the center of the Milky Way â€" the same way Earth revolves around the sun â€" it moves up and down, or oscillates, through the plane of our galaxy. And the rate of this oscillation is very intriguing.

Below is an illustration of our solar system's oscillation, where the orange dot in the lower left rectangle is our sun and the black line at the center is the dark disc:



(APS/Alan Stonebraker)

In her book, Randall describes a dark, pancake-shaped patty of densely packed dark matter within our galaxy that could be responsible for our emergence as a species.

Dark matter has never been directly detected. However, there is enough evidence for its immense gravitational influence on our universe that the vast majority of the scientific community agrees that dark matter is a form of mysterious matter that we can neither see or touch, but that nevertheless must permeate the cosmos.

Generally, dark matter tends to be concentrated in large halos around galaxies like giant bubbles. But Randall thinks that there could also be a so-called dark disc amid the stars, planets, and gas clouds in our galaxy.

One species' extinction is another's head start



(Thomson Reuters)


Paleontologists largely agree that about 66 million years ago a giant, 9-mile-long celestial body â€" likely a comet â€" struck Earth. The impact wiped out 75% of species across the planet, including most of the dinosaurs.

Among the survivors were small primates. Over the next 66 million years these primates diversified, grew larger, learned to walk on two legs, and developed large brains, which they eventually used to invent pizza delivery.

So what caused that giant space rock to collide with our planet in the first place and give primates a chance to thrive?

It could just be chance â€" or luck, depending on your perspective â€" but Randall would disagree with both of these ideas.


(Business Insider)

By Jessica Orwig
19 hours ago



(Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard Staff Photographer)
Lisa Randall.


Where do we come from? Well, it depends on who you ask.

For example, an astrophysicist might say that the chemical components of our bodies were first forged in the nuclear fires of stars.

On the other hand, an evolutionary biologist might look at the similarities between our DNA and that of other primates' and conclude we evolved from apes.

Lisa Randall, a theoretical physicist at Harvard University, has a different, and novel answer, which she describes in her latest book, "Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs."

Randall has written other popular science books, including the New York Times bestseller "Warped Passages: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions." Her studies at Harvard explore theoretical particle physics and cosmology.

In her latest book, she posits that the extinction of the dinosaurs â€" necessary for the emergence of humans â€" is linked to dark matter. Dark matter is the mysterious, invisible matter that astronomers estimate makes up 85% of all matter in our universe.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNy8MUPOAtQ

He he...

Mejo jagajaga man nang imoha, Aylandil...

Ni JEEPY P. COMPIO


GRABENG tiyabaw sa usa ka mister sud sa Sasa Police Station human kalit siyang gibiyaan sa iyang misis, gidala ang ilang mga gamit alas 10:00 sa buntag niadtong Huwebes.

Ang insidente nga pagbiya nahitabo didto sa Zone Road, Barangay Pampanga, Buhangin District, dakbayan sa Davao.

Alas 12:30 sa udto naghilak nga nagpatala sa Sasa Police Station si alyas Pidot, 38, taga Zone Road, kinsa nagbutyag sa duty desk officer nga ang paghilak nalang ang iyang mahimo human gilayasan siya sa iyang misis.

Si Pidot nagsaysay nga dihang miuli siya sa ilang balay, wala na ang iyang asawa, gipangdala pa ang ilang mga gamit.

Giingon nga wala niya masayri unsay hinungdan nganong milayas ang iyang asawa, apan dako iyang pagtuo nga miuban kini sa laing lalaki.

Nasayran sa Sun.Star SuperBalita nga wa hinuon maguol ang nasampit nga bana tungod dagko na ang ilang duha ka anak, apan iyang gikagul-an, kay gipangdala ang ilang mga gamit nga ang uban niadto inutang pa.

Dugang nasayran nga sa wa pa milayas ang iyang misis, nakamatikod na kini nga dunay lahi nga linihukan ang iyang asawa, apan gibaliwala lamang niya kini.

Sumala ni Pidot nga kakuhaan unta kini'g pagtulun-an sa sama niya nga mister kinsa naningkamot apan wa damha nga mangita'g laing lalaki ang misis.


Gipatik sa mantalaang SuperBalita Davao Nobiembre 14, 2015.

He he, miniature organic backhoe man ni...

Ni JEEPY P. COMPIO


GITUOHANG nagtago-tago karon dinhi sa siyudad sa Davao ang usa ka pari sa usa ka simbahan (di Katoliko) didto sa North Cotabato nga giakusahan nga nag-among-among sa 22-anyos nga babaye.

Subay sa impormasyon nga nakalap sa Sun.Star SuperBalita, giingong mireklamo ngadto sa mga otoridad ang 22-anyos nga babaye human siya giingong gibiyaan sa pari nga nagpasalig kaniya nga pakaslan siya human sa nahitabong pagkunsumo kaniya.

Giingon nga nahitabo ang pangabuso sa pari ngadto sa babaye niadto pang bulan sa Mayo 2015, diin wa dayon kini misumbong sa mga pulis gumikan mipasalig ang pari kaniya nga magmugna sila'g pamilya.

Dugang sumbong sa babaye nga gikulong siya sa kombento ug gihimong sex slave sa higayon nga uhawon ang pari sa lawasnong kalipay.

Nasayran pa, nga kada gabii siya hilabtan sa pari, apan gihilom lamang gyud niini ang panghitabo aron nga panalipdan ang iyang dungog ug dungog sa simbahan nga gialagaran sa pari.

Sa nakalabay nga adlaw, human wa na niya makita ang pari, misugilon na ang babaye ngadto sa iyang mga kabanay aron motabang sa paghimo og aksiyon labot sa nahitabo kaniya.

Giandam na sa kapulisan ang kasong lugos batok sa pari sa usa ka sekta sa simbahan sa dapit nga gituohang nagtago-tago dinhi sa dakbayan.


Gipatik sa mantalaang SuperBalita Davao Nobiembre 15, 2015

Another one bites the dust. (Now a mining company, next the country?

Samot ka-Hudeyo tan-awon...

Hmm, unsa kaha ang medium (o kaha process) ani nga art work?

Mr. Grandstander Extraordinaire, hilom diha. Gayaya lang imong bugan...

Oddly familiar

We have seen this all before; it should be oddly familiar. The reaction to the horrific January 2015 Paris attacks was equally predictable; the knee-jerk Islamophobia ignored the crucial context for the tragic attack â€" namely the fact that it was was the catastrophic U.S.-led war on Iraq and torture at Abu Ghraib, not Charlie Hebdo cartoons, that radicalized the shooters. Also ignored was the fact that the extremist attackers were sons of émigrés from Algeria, a country that for decades bled profusely under barbarous French colonialism, which only ended after an even bloodier war of independence in 1962 that left hundreds of thousands of Algerians dead.

After the January Paris attacks, leaders from around the world â€" including officials from Western-backed extremist theocratic tyrannies like Saudi Arabia â€" gathered in Paris to supposedly participate in a march that turned out to actually be a carefully orchestrated and cynical photo op.

And not only are Muslims collectively blamed for such attacks; they, too, collectively bear the brunt of the backlash.

In just six days after the January attacks, the National Observatory Against Islamophobia documented 60 incidents of Islamophobic attacks and threats in France. TellMAMA, a U.K.-based organization that monitors racist anti-Muslim attacks, also reported 50-60 threats.

The massacres that are ignored

There are hundreds of terrorist attacks in Europe every year. The ones that immediately fill the headlines of every news outlet, however, are the ones carried out by Muslims â€" not the ones carried out by ethno-nationalists or far-right extremists, which happen to be much more frequent.

Yet it is not just right-wing pundits and the media that give much more attention to attacks like those in Paris; heads of state frequently do so as well. Minutes after the Paris attacks, Presidents Hollande and Obama addressed the world, publicly lamenting the tragedy. Secretary John Kerry condemned them as “heinous, evil, vile acts.”

Notable was the official silence surrounding another horrific terrorist attack that took place only the day before. Two ISIS suicide bombers killed at least 43 people and wounded more than 230 in attacks on a heavily Shia Muslim community in Beirut on November 12. President Obama did not address the world and condemn the bombings, which comprised the worst attack in Beirut in years.

In fact, the opposite happened; the victims of the ISIS attacks were characterized in the U.S. media as Hezbollah human shields and blamed for their own deaths based on the unfortunate coincidence of their geographical location. Some right-wing pundits even went so far as to justify the ISIS attacks because they were assumed to be aimed at Hezbollah.

Nor did the White House interrupt every news broadcast to publicly condemn the ISIS massacre in Turkey in October that left approximately 128 people dead and 500 injured at a peaceful rally for a pro-Kurdish political party.

More strikingly, where were the heads of state when the Western-backed, Saudi-led coalition bombed a Yemeni wedding on September 28, killing 131 civilians, including 80 women? That massacre didn’t go viral, and Obama and Hollande did not apologize, yet alone barely even acknowledge the tragedy.

Do French lives matter more than Lebanese, Turkish, Kurdish, and Yemeni ones? Were these not, too, “heinous, evil, vile acts”?

Demonstrating how right-wing and Islamic extremist logic intersect, ISIS actually favorably cited the black-and-white worldview shared ironically by both former President George W. Bush and his intractable foe, al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. ISIS wrote: “As Shaykh Usamah Ibn Ladin said, ‘The world today is divided into two camps. Bush spoke the truth when he said, “Either you are with us or you are with the terrorists.” Meaning, either you are with the crusade or you are with Islam.'”

By making ISIS go viral, we are only helping them accomplish their sadistic goals.

In the meantime, France’s extreme right-wing National Front party stands to gain in particular. The party â€" which was founded by a neo-Nazi and is now led by his estranged daughter Marine Le Pen â€" constantly rails against Muslims, whom it hypocritically characterizes as Nazi occupiers. In 2014, a Paris court ruled it was fair to call the National Front “fascist.”

Before the Paris attacks, Le Pen’s extreme-right movement was France’s second-largest party. Now it may become the first.

An excerpt from ISIS' own publication (Credit: Iyad El-Baghdadi)

Clampdown on Muslims and refugees

Every time Islamic extremists carry out an attack, the world’s 1.6 billion Muslims are expected to collectively apologize; it has become a cold cliché at this point.

Who benefits from such clampdown on Muslims and refugees?

Two primary groups: One, Islamic extremist groups themselves, who use the clampdown as “evidence” that there is supposedly no room for Muslims in the secular West that has declared war on Islam; and two, Europe’s growing far-right, who will use the attacks as “evidence” that there is supposedly no room for Muslims in the secular West that should declare war on Islam.

Although enemies, both groups share a congruence of interests. The far-right wants Muslims and refugees from Muslim-majority countries (even if they are not Muslim) to leave because it sees them as innately violent terrorists. Islamic extremists want Muslim refugees to leave so they can be radicalized and join their caliphate.

More specifically, to name names, ISIS and al-Qaeda will benefit from the clampdown on Muslims and refugees, and Europe’s growing far-right movement will continue to recruit new members with anti-Muslim and anti-refugee propaganda.

ISIS has explicitly stated that its goal is to make extinct what it calls the “grayzone” â€" that is to say, Western acceptance of Muslims. The “endangerment” of the grayzone “began with the blessed operations of September 11th, as those operations manifested two camps before the world for mankind to choose between, a camp of Islam … and a camp of kufr â€" the crusader coalition,” wrote ISIS in its own publication.

Right-wing exploitation

As soon as the news of the attacks broke, even though there was no evidence and practically nothing was known about the attackers, a Who’s Who of right-wing pundits immediately latched on to the violence as an opportunity to demonize Muslims and refugees from Muslim-majority countries.

In a disgrace to the victims, a shout chorus of reactionary demagogues exploited the horrific attacks to distract from and even deny domestic problems. They flatly told Black Lives Matter activists fighting for basic civil and human rights, fast-food workers seeking liveable wages and union rights, and students challenging crippling debts that their problems are insignificant because they are not being held hostage at gunpoint.

More insidiously, when evidence began to suggest that extremists were responsible for the attacks, and when ISIS eventually claimed responsibility, the demagogues implied or even downright insisted that Islam â€" the religion of 1.6 billion people â€" was to blame, and that the predominately (although not entirely) Muslim refugees entering the West are only going to carry out more of such attacks.

Our terrorism double standard: After Paris, let’s stop blaming Muslims and take a hard look at ourselves
BEN NORTON
http://www.salon.com/
SUNDAY, NOV 15, 2015 01:48 AM BST


We must mourn all victims. But until we look honestly at the violence we export, nothing will ever change


Any time there is an attack on civilians in the post-9/11 West, demagogues immediately blame it on Muslims. They frequently lack evidence, but depend on the blunt force of anti-Muslim bigotry to bolster their accusations.

Actual evidence, on the other hand, shows that less than two percent of terrorist attacks from 2009 to 2013 in the E.U. were religiously motivated. In 2013, just one percent of the 152 terrorist attacks were religious in nature; in 2012, less than three percent of the 219 terrorist attacks were inspired by religion.

The vast majority of terrorist attacks in these years were motivated by ethno-nationalism or separatism. In 2013, 55 percent of terrorist attacks were ethno-nationalist or separatist in nature; in 2012, more than three-quarters (76 percent) of terrorist attacks were inspired by ethno-nationalism or separatism.

These facts, nonetheless, have never stopped the prejudiced pundits from insisting otherwise.

On Friday the 13th of November, militants massacred at least 127 people in Paris in a series of heinous attacks.

There are many layers of hypocrisy in the public reaction to the tragedy that must be sorted through in order to understand the larger context in which these horrific attacks are situated â€" and, ultimately, to prevent such attacks from happening in the future.

Mao na. Bahaw + bulinaw kinilaw + bahal + sa dagat ga-utaw-utaw = timpasaw.

Gisugba na...

Upat ka mananagat nagduka-duka sa dagat, usa natagak, tulo napugwat; gibahis-bahisan ug gisuhid ang dagat apan ang lawas sa usa wala na gayod maugkat
Updated November 14, 2015 - 12:00am


CEBU, Philippines - Gipangita pa ang usa ka mananagat nga natagak kay nagduka-duka nga sakay sa baruto nga giguyod og motorbanca pasado alas 4 sa kadlawon niadto’ng Huwebes sa kadagatan sa Antipolo, Tuburan.

Ang mananagat giila nga si Reynold Candidisimo, 26, taga Sta Lucia, Asturias.

Sumala pa ni Senior Police Officer 2 Aldin Abay-Abay, desk officer sa Tuburan Police Station, nga nahinabi sa Banat News nga ang mananagat kuyog nila ni Jesus Gemarino, 41; Arami Gemarino, 34 ug Allan Repunte, 41, nga sakay sa baruto nga giguyod sa pump boat ni Maximo Bansiloy, 62, ug sa iyang asawa nga si Esmeralda, 61.

Matud ni Abay-Abay nga ang mananagat nigikan pasado alas 9 niadto’ng Miyerkules sa Sta Lucia, aron mamukot og hipon.

Apan sa ila’ng pagpangita og hipon naabot sila sa Kamingawan Shoal, Antipolo apan matud pa nga samtang giguyod ang ila’ng baruto nagduka-duka sila’ng upat.

Diha’ng natungod na sila sa Kamingawan Shoal kalit lang may nipaka hinungdan nga napugwat ang mga kauban ug sa ilang pagsusi nawagtang na si Candidisimo.

Gisyagitan nila si Maximo ug gisultihan nga natagak si Candidisimo hinungdan nga nituyok sila sa agi ug gipangita apan pakyas sila bisan pa sa pipila nila ka oras nga pagbahis-bahis sa kadagatan.

Matud ni Abay-abay nga human og report sa igsuon ni Candidisimo sa hitabo, ang kauban sa natagak nga mananagat nisuhid sa kadagatan aron makit-an ang ila’ng kauban. (Bryner L. Diaz/GMR)(BANAT NEWS)

CAGAYAN DE ORO. Newly installed City Mayor Caesar Ian Acenas signs official documents on Friday, November 13, at his old office at the Legislative Building of the City Hall complex. (JB R. Deveza)

Moreno nagpabilin sa City Hall
Ni STEPHANIE V. BERGANIO


KANHI Cagayan de Oro City Mayor Oscar Moreno nagdumili ug pagnaog isip mayor sa dakbayan bisan pa man sa pagsilbi sa Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) Northern Mindanao sa dismissal order nga gipagawas sa buhatan sa Ombudsman.

Niadtong Huwebes sa gabii, si Vice Mayor Caesar Ian Acenas ang naghurar isip bag-ong mayor human gitangtang pagkamayor si Moreno.

Si Konshal Candy Darimbang nga maoy naghupot sa pinakadaghan nga boto maoy magsilbing bise-mayor sa dakbayan. Sila nanumpa ubos ni Assistant City Prosecutor Abdullah Macagaan.

Sa usa ka press conference, giangkon ni Moreno nga dakong hagit sa iyang kinabuhi ang nahitabo ug gani wala siya makatulog og hunahuna sa kalit nga desisyon sa Ombusdman ning panahona.

Giingong nagpabilin usab siya nga mayor sa dakbayan tungod kay malaumon sila nga aprobahan ang ilang giduso nga TRO ug dunggon ang iyang kampo.

Gibutyag usab niini nga confident siya nga sa katapusan mogawas ang kamatouran apan ang mando ning panahona iyang dawaton tungod kay mubo lamang kini nga kalampusan gikan sa mga midaot kaniya.

Dugang niini nga naluoy lamang siya sa katawhan sa dakbayan sa Cagayan de Oro.

Gipasalig ni Moreno nga dili matapos ang iyang pakigbisog nga mogawas ang kamatouran. Gilauman usab sa kampo niini nga dili balewalaon ang ilang giduso nga temporary restraining order sa Court of appeals.

Ang dismissal order gisilbi ni Ivy Jadap sa DILG Northern Mindanao niadtong Huwebes sa hapon ug mihatag og kopya kang Acenas.

Gibutyag usab ni Nilo Castañares kinsa DILG Northern Mindanao Director nga ning panahona si Acenas na ang ilang gideklara ug giilang bag-ong Mayor sa siyudad tungod kay mando kini sa Ombudsman ug walay papel nga misupak niini sama sa TRO.

Malipayon si Acenas sa pagdawat sa bag-ong posisyon ug gibutyag niini nga unta mohawa na lamang si Moreno sa iyang buhatan kay kini man ang bag-ong kamandoan ug aron makasugod siya sa pagserbisyo sa katawhan isip amahan sa dakbayan.


Gipatik sa mantalaang SuperBalita Cagayan de Oro Nobiembre 14, 2015.

Lami galing pero nnow pa ko...

Ah, man's molecules must be identical to those that belong to those ancient stars...

Ni KRIS C. SIALANA


GIPANGTUNOL sa usa ka lola ang mahalon niini nga mga gamit lakip na ang salaping cash sa naka-estoryang wala maila nga babaye sulod sa pampasaheroan nga jeep.

Matud sa biktima nga si Virginia (bansagon gipugngan), 68, minyo nga taga Gitagum, Misamis Oriental nga daw gihurim-huriman kini sa suspetsadong babaye gumikan kay wala kini nasayod sa sunod nga panghitabo.

Subay pa sa report sa kapolisan giingong samtang sakay kini sa Iponan liner nga dyip adunay wala mailhing babaye ang nakighinabi niini.

Dako na lamang ang katingala niini gumikan kay wala madugay gisunod niini ang mga mando sa maong suspetsado sama na lamang sa pagtunol sa iyang salaping cash nga nagkantidad og P2mil, mahalong cellphone, lakip na ang mahalong relo.

Nakurat na lamang ang biktima gumikan kay sa pag-abot na niini sa may Bulua intersection anha pa kini nakamatikod sa maong panghitabo nga nabiktima na kini sa pagpangilad sa dihang wala na ang mga butang niini.

Nagtuo ang biktima nga adunay gigamit nga dautang mga pamaagi ang maong suspetsado hinungdan kay wala kini nakahinumdom sa dihang anaa pa atol sa maong hitabo.

Hinungdan nga igo na lamang sa pagpatala sa buhatan sa kapolisan ang biktima aron sa pagpamasin nga mahibalik pa kaniya ang maong mga nawalang mga butang.


Gipatik sa mantalaang SuperBalita Cagayan de Oro Nobiembre 08, 2015.

What an elaborate hoax..

Date-date sa mingawng dapit lagi ba...

Ni Romeo T. Limpangog, EIM (Banat) | Updated November 8, 2015 - 12:00am


CEBU, Philippines â€" Nalandig sa tambalanan ang usa ka lalaki human kini gipusil ug natapsingan sa ulo sa duha ka armadong tulisan nga mitulis kaniya ug sa iyang uyab samtang sila nanuroy diha sa Roro Port sa sitio Camolinas, barangay Poblacion, lungsod sa Cordova sa miaging gabii.

Si  Police Officer 2 Ryan Casiban sa Cordova Police Station miila sa biktima nga mao si Jeff Navarro Laroa, 37, taga barangay Basbas, dakbayan sa Lapu-Lapu kuyog ang hinigugma nga si Alona Lato, 22, taga Ibabao, Basak sa mao gihapong dakbayan.

Matud pa ni Casiban, nag-estorya  ang duha sa maong lugar dihang kalit lang nga mitumaw ang duha ka wala mailhing mga lalaki ug kalit lang nition kanila og armas dungan ang pagdeklarar nga tulis.

Gipangayo sa tulisan ang yawe sa motorsiklo nga giparking duol sa ilang gilingkoran apan dihang nagmagahi kini paghatag niini kalit kining gipusil diha sa ulo ug suwerte nga nakatakilid og gamay ang biktima ug natapsingan lang sa bala.

Gikuha sa tulisan ang yawe sa motorsiklo didto kang Laroa ug gikuha usab niini ang cellphone sa hinigugma niini dayong pabulhot sa pagpadagan pahilayo sa maong dapit.

Ang biktima gidala sa Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center sa dakbayan sa Sugbo samtang wala pa mailhi sa kapolisan kun si kinsa ang mga karnaper. (BANAT NEWS)

Ayaw mo pagalgal og job offers from Potugalgal. As for Aylandil's feared serpent, we hope our embassy people will identify it and eat it inmediatamente.

REBUILT, THIS CITY. In Bogo City, 396 houses have been built 2 years since Yolanda struck. About a dozen private donors, humanitarian groups and non-government organizations provided the funds, materials and, in some cases, land for these projects, like the Yolanda Village (above).(Sun.Star Foto/Allan Cuizon)

Hmm, I want to know the type of black dye that was applied...

Xi-nungaling...

Nahibaw-an nga kami maoy nangharana niadtong gabhiona. Nauwaw ko kang Mila. Ang buktot nasuko pag-ayo kang Bay Epeng, hasta ko giapil kay siya ang napasanginlan nga nagbugalbugal. Nahibung ko nga wa masuko nako si Mila dihang nagkatagbo kami ug wa ko makalikay. Mibisita ko kang Mila sa daghang higayon hangtod nagkauyab mi. Kinsay di mosugot nako nga graduating na man ko sa civil engineering?

Kay wa na masuko nako, mikuyog si Oktot Saryo sa akong pagpamisita kang Mila. Wa ko magdahom sa akong nakita. Nagtinutokay sila si Oktot Saryo ug Tasing kihod. Way pulong gilibkas sa ilang mga ngabil. Apan may kahinam nga giutong sa ilang mga mata. Mikuhit nako si Mila nga nakasabot sa akong kahibung. “ Uyab man na sila sa miaging tuig pa.” Wa ko makatuo sa akong nadungog. Ang buktot kong higala abtik pa sa langgam nga manatad.

Nakasabot na ko nganong suko kaayo siya kang Bay Epeng. (KATAPUSAN)


Gipatik sa mantalaang SuperBalita Cebu Nobiembre 08, 2015.

Miawit si Bosyong sa mahawot kaayong tingog nga nakapakurog sa akong kasingkasing. Hastang mga humot nga buwak sa champaca sa duol nangatagak gud. Misikad pa gayud ang bugnawng hangin nga gisakyan sa tingog ni Bosyong. May mikagiki sa itaas sa balay. Daw giganahan sa harana. Unya, may miigham nga lalake. Si Titi Eko ang miigham, bana ni Nang Sayong nga iyaan ni Mila.

Wa damha mibalak si Bay Epeng sa nagkanguhal nga tingog kay hubog. “ Iii…kaw.. Ta.. Tasing ang.. bu…wak nga.

naka…pa..ki..hod..uy…. ning … du..dug..han he he he…!”

Si Tasing ig-agaw ni Mila nga kihod. Apan sama kang Mila maayog hitsura. Kanunay ning mokuyog kang Mila sa tingbakasyon dinhi sa among baryo, Unya, mikagiki si Bay Epeng.

“Buang!!!” May misinggit, Nagkagubot ang taas. Wa na ko mohuwat sa sunod mahitabo. Midagan ko gukod nila ni Parts Bosyong ug Bay Epeng tadlas sa kahayag sa kagabhion. Si Oktot Saryo nauwahi nga naggakos sa iyang sista. Nakit-an siya ni Titi Eko nga nagwaldas-waldas sa sinaw niyang pinuti. “ Hoy, buktot, huwat animala ka!”

Tugob sa kadasig si Oktot Saryo nga nagda sa iyang sista. Gihabulan na sa kangitngit ang kalibutan. Wa pa makaabot ang elektrisidad sa among baryo. Nagpitok-pitok na ang kahayag sa mga sugang lampara sa kabalayan. Pusturawo kaayo si Oktot Saryo sa puwa niyang T-shirt.

Sinaw kaayo ang iyang kulungong buhok kay gi-pomadahan og Pals. Dako kaayog ngisi ang buktot sa akong pag-abot sa eskina. “

Si Bosyong, Bay Rogel.” Wa palibak si Bosyong kay kusog naglakaw padung namo uban ni Bay Epeng, ang palahubog sa among barkada.

“Ato unang dimdimon kadtong gi-order nakong tuba sa ka-Noy Goning, mga amigo!”Agda dayon ni Bay Epeng nga nagtisngi. “Para ganahan si Bay Bosyong nga mokanta.”

Mao pa gyuy pagsubang sa linging buwan. Mihuyop ang mabugnawng hangin. Mikuting-kuting dayon si Oktot Saryo sa iyang pasakalye.

Sugilanon ni Ernesto D. Lariosa
San Fernando, Cebu


NAMATIKDAN ko ning hapuna ang masanagong panagway ni Oktot Saryo human masabot namo si Bosyong, ang haranista sa among baryo, nga gitugahan og mabugnawng tingog. Daghan ang mosuhol kaniya labi nang naninguha ang mosuhol sa usa ka babaye. Sa kadaghang mosuhol kaniya, daghang mga dalaga nga manugot sa nanagsuhol tungod sa iyang harana.

“Di ko pasuhol nimo, Parts Rogel, ikaw gud ang tigsuwat sa akong mga love letter.”

“Kon mao, salamat kaayo, Parts Bosyong. Mouban man ni si Oktot Saryo nato, siyay moduyog nimo.” Gilingi nako si Oktot Saryo nga dako kaayog pahiyom. Kini si Oktot Saryo, among barkada nga buktot, maoy ngilngig nga gitarista sad sa baryo. Tungod sa maong sabot nag-inom mig tuba sa ilang Noy Goning ning hapuna. Tungod sa among kasabaan nahibawo na nuon si Noy Goning nga mangharana mi kang Mila, usa ka guwapang maestra nga taga Bohol, nga nagbakasyon dinhi sa iyang iyaan nga among silingan.

In a statement posted at the official website of the Office of the Ombudsman, Moreno was held liable for entering into a court agreement with Ajinomoto Philippines Corporation on August 2014 which allowed the latter to pay P300,000 instead of its original local business tax deficiency of P2.9 million.

The Office of the Ombudsman ruled that ‘the approval of the agreement by the court cannot, in any way, legitimize the acts of Moreno.’ -- http://www.sunstar.com.ph/

Three days ahead of the books' publication, the Vatican announced that as part of its probe into leaked or pilfered documents and information, it had arrested a Vatican employee â€" a Spanish priest who had served on one of the pope's reform panels â€" and an Italian laywoman, a publicist who had served on the same advisory panel.

The priest was being held in a Vatican jail cell, while the woman was released after interrogation because she is co-operating with the investigation, the Holy See said earlier this week.

Francis on Friday lamented that the church "so many times is business-deal-minded."

With such a mentality, "one cannot say that this is a church that ministers, that is at service" to the faithful, he said, adding that instead "it is using others."

Francis prayed that the church would be "saved from temptations."

The books, by Italian journalists, detailed mismanagement and internal resistance to the reformist pope and prelates' lavish spending, including for the Vatican's saint-making bureaucracy and by cardinals with penchants for big, lavish apartments.

Francis, a Jesuit from Argentina, was a Vatican outsider who was elected in 2013 by his fellow cardinals with a mandate to clean house, especially the Holy See's long murky financial dealings and bookkeeping and clubby administrative machine.

Associated Press
By FRANCES D'EMILIO
19 hours ago


VATICAN CITY (AP) â€" Pope Francis on Friday decried how bishops and other clergy exploit their roles to advance their careers and to increase wealth, in his first public comments following the latest leaked revelations of greedy Vatican prelates resisting his efforts to reform Holy See finances and administration.

"Even in the church there are these people, who, instead of serving, of thinking, of others ... use the church. They are the career-climbers, those attached to money," the pope said during Mass in the chapel of the plain Vatican hotel where he chose to live, in an example of simplicity, instead of dwelling in the ornate Apostolic Palace.

Looking somber and sounding grim, he added: "And how many priests, bishops we have seen like this. It's sad to say it, no?"

Francis delivered the impromptu remarks during his daily homily, apparently inspired by revelations in two books, which went on sale on Thursday, of leaked documents and conversations.

Ang akoa ingon ani pagluto, way daghang sagol...

Bwahaha! Be afraid, be very afraid...

Rich doggies can be sad, too...

Hmm, new normal? Do these cuties pass muster?

Bwahaha!

Aprub!

Quote from: islander on November 06, 2015, 02:20:59 PM
face saving statements.  all nations do that.  the shouting match is done behind closed doors.

Hala, kahinumdom lang hinuon ko sa shouting then shooting behind closed doors sa Lighthouse Restaurant sa Cebu  a couple of weeks ago...

Quote from: islander on November 06, 2015, 02:17:57 PM
this is earthshaking.

Yes, some of these shrooms cause the earth to shake and the heavens to dance...

Quote from: islander on November 06, 2015, 02:19:33 PM
a good sanctuary for tblanders too.  bahalag unggoy, basta sacred.

...unya pinakaon pa jud og official bananas...

http://thechive.com/